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IN the ninth Frederic W. H. Myers Memorial Lecture, Dr. S. G. Soal has given an admirably succinct summary of the present situation as regards experimental psychical research, and has added a few short criticisms on the various attempts now being made to bring the phenomena of telepathy and telæ sthesia under a rigid system of control. He describes his own experiments with Mr. Shackleton and Mrs. Stewart, briefly considers the various group experiments associated with the late Mr. Whately Carington, and has a few words to say on the Duke University series and the picture tests favoured by Dr. Hettinger.
The Experimental Situation in Psychical Research
By S. G. Soal. (Being the Ninth Frederic W. H. Myers Memorial Lecture, 1947.) Pp. iv + 64 + 4 plates. (London: Society for Psychical Research, 1948.) 2s.
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The Experimental Situation in Psychical Research. Nature 162, 432 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162432c0
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